"Vulgarity" in The Woman Warrior -----A Stylistic exploration Abstract: The Woman Warrior is a book written by the great contemporary Chinese American woman writer Maxine Hong Kingston. ... Keywords: Vulgarity postmodern readerly writerly The Woman Warrior is a book written by the great contemporary Chinese American woman writer Maxine Hong Kingston. ... Here I want to point out that paralleling with those vulgar sections in The Woman Warrior, which have been illustrated by the examples above, there are many tasteful, refined, ...

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The comic book character Superman is also an iconic cultural symbol, representing a heroic figure that has become the personification of strength. ... The interlinking threads that combine the past and present stories are masterfully woven by the use of background notes and reflections. ... The recent popular adaptation of Xena Warrior princess has popularised Amazon representation. The concept of a woman warrior as outlined in both the Xena series and Cassandra is distanced from the cultural familiarity, where a woman is often the object of war not the protagonist. ... In Xena a woman occup...

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Tolkien's Archetypal Hero(s) When J.R.R Tolkien published the first book in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, in 1954 he broke ground and paved the way for fantasy all the way to the twenty-first century -- a century that still holds Tolkien's works on a glorious pedestal that stands far and above those in his shadow. ... At the beginning of The Fellowship of the Rings, the first book in the trilogy, Frodo departs, accompanied by his friends: embarking on the journey to destroy the ring by casting it into the Crack of Doom in the land of Mordor as he promised Bilbo. The second half ...

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The setting of the book is in eastern Nigeria, on the eve of British colonialism in Africa. ... At one point in the book, Okonkwo remembers hearing one of his playmates calling his father anagbala,? which was the word for woman, but all described a man who had taken not titles (13). ... As a young man, Okonkwo had been very successful wrestler, and as he grew older he became a well-known warrior. ...

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